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Mar. 24th, 2011 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vicarzExperiment success - grind coffee the night before and store it in a tiny container. Faster coffee, still fresher than pre-ground, less worry that the grinder wakes anybody up. For someone who doesn't cook much, I spend a lot of time preparing and cleaning up coffee.
Filled the tank today, 281 miles 8 gal. Love me my decade-old civic. Get one. I also may be buying honda (or toy) stock soon since I think people are over-estimating the impact of disaster on those company's profits in the next few years.
I walked, on my new grr program, to the gym yesterday at Rosslyn instead of driving to my fav Ballston. To my joy I found they renovated again - the bathrooms and shower I'll never use look downright clean and modern, but the real joy was the replacement of the squat racks and weights. The old squeaky cages are gone and replaced with new easy to adjust squat cages - joy! The weights are all new too, so I'm going to hit Rossyln more. Soon it won't be a choice as if I walk to the metro station I'd have to go there or foolishly walk home from nearly the same location only to hop in my car and drive to a gym.
My new workout kick:
5/3/1 - I was screwing it up. I'm re-reading the e-book (and I want to chip in but just don't think it justifies the $20-30 price, but if I get amazing results I may suck it up) from Wendler. It's hard to read the misogynistic stuff (north of vag) in so much lifting paraphernalia. What I found was I made a major blunder in my support work. I didn't quite understand the 10 light reps...of which I was doing 1, was supposed to be 5. Ah. Legs hurt right now!
"Diet." I had to drop running to see if my knee turned around, but in lieu of that I read that t-nation summary article that noted running for aerobic exercise would burn fat, but then in response your body would try to create fat to replace it. Huh. They suggested longer periods walking, and shorter periods sprinting, hills, or pulling a sled (mush)! The theory I'm picking up on is simple but twofold:
i) caveman. We are designed to do minor exercise all day, with short bursts of high energy (run from, run after, smash with rock). Your workout program will yield best results if it follows this, like the "eat what you find as you walk around a million years ago" is turning out to be the healthiest diet.
ii) channel what you eat. If you burn fat, what you eat will be channeled into restoring fat. If instead you are burning muscle and repairing muscle, your body will channel food into muscle.
SO - I'll be working out shorter periods, but more days a week with the thought, or ill-informed hope, that what I eat will be more likely to be channeled into muscle every day than into fat because I won't be using much fat but I will be constantly hurting myself in ways that send out "build muscle" messages. This potentially could get me better muscle gains and that side effect of not-fat that makes pants easier (until my mega-quads don't fit my little-man pants).
5/3/1 revisited - What isn't clear is if I'll get more 5/3/1 gains if I work out 4 days a week for short lifting days, or 3 days a week still for short lifting days. The problem I'm having is long recovery time - particularly as deadlifts are hurting my back repeatedly. I have an odd problem where I'm ok on the deadlifts with big weight (275-315, nothing crazy) but then when I do half the weight for 10 reps...I often get a minor pull that takes a week to ten days to recover from. I'm really-really-really trying to watch form 110%, but somehow I keep yoinking my lumbar region and screwing my entire body up. Something needs to change there but I'm not sure what it is yet. I'm having no such problems on military, bench, or even squats. Hmm.
Filled the tank today, 281 miles 8 gal. Love me my decade-old civic. Get one. I also may be buying honda (or toy) stock soon since I think people are over-estimating the impact of disaster on those company's profits in the next few years.
I walked, on my new grr program, to the gym yesterday at Rosslyn instead of driving to my fav Ballston. To my joy I found they renovated again - the bathrooms and shower I'll never use look downright clean and modern, but the real joy was the replacement of the squat racks and weights. The old squeaky cages are gone and replaced with new easy to adjust squat cages - joy! The weights are all new too, so I'm going to hit Rossyln more. Soon it won't be a choice as if I walk to the metro station I'd have to go there or foolishly walk home from nearly the same location only to hop in my car and drive to a gym.
My new workout kick:
5/3/1 - I was screwing it up. I'm re-reading the e-book (and I want to chip in but just don't think it justifies the $20-30 price, but if I get amazing results I may suck it up) from Wendler. It's hard to read the misogynistic stuff (north of vag) in so much lifting paraphernalia. What I found was I made a major blunder in my support work. I didn't quite understand the 10 light reps...of which I was doing 1, was supposed to be 5. Ah. Legs hurt right now!
"Diet." I had to drop running to see if my knee turned around, but in lieu of that I read that t-nation summary article that noted running for aerobic exercise would burn fat, but then in response your body would try to create fat to replace it. Huh. They suggested longer periods walking, and shorter periods sprinting, hills, or pulling a sled (mush)! The theory I'm picking up on is simple but twofold:
i) caveman. We are designed to do minor exercise all day, with short bursts of high energy (run from, run after, smash with rock). Your workout program will yield best results if it follows this, like the "eat what you find as you walk around a million years ago" is turning out to be the healthiest diet.
ii) channel what you eat. If you burn fat, what you eat will be channeled into restoring fat. If instead you are burning muscle and repairing muscle, your body will channel food into muscle.
SO - I'll be working out shorter periods, but more days a week with the thought, or ill-informed hope, that what I eat will be more likely to be channeled into muscle every day than into fat because I won't be using much fat but I will be constantly hurting myself in ways that send out "build muscle" messages. This potentially could get me better muscle gains and that side effect of not-fat that makes pants easier (until my mega-quads don't fit my little-man pants).
5/3/1 revisited - What isn't clear is if I'll get more 5/3/1 gains if I work out 4 days a week for short lifting days, or 3 days a week still for short lifting days. The problem I'm having is long recovery time - particularly as deadlifts are hurting my back repeatedly. I have an odd problem where I'm ok on the deadlifts with big weight (275-315, nothing crazy) but then when I do half the weight for 10 reps...I often get a minor pull that takes a week to ten days to recover from. I'm really-really-really trying to watch form 110%, but somehow I keep yoinking my lumbar region and screwing my entire body up. Something needs to change there but I'm not sure what it is yet. I'm having no such problems on military, bench, or even squats. Hmm.
